PDF Books in Essays 1v5b2f
Oscar Wilde 464u11
The concluding volume of any collected edition is unavoidably fragmentary and desultory. And if this particular volume is no exception to a general tendency, it presents points of view in the author's literary career which may have escaped his greatest irers and detractors. The wide range of his knowledge and interests is more apparent than in.. 733k41
Oscar Wilde 464u11
Oscar Wilde visited America in the year 1882. Interest in the aethetic School, of which he was already the acknowledged master, had sometime previously spread to the United States, and it is said that the production of the Gilbert and Sullivan opera, Patience, in which he and his disciples were held up to ridicule, determined him to pay a visit to ..
Oscar Wilde 464u11
Miscellaneous aphorisms, followed by The Soul of Man.The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.Women are made to be loved, not to be understood.It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read andwhat one shouldn't. Moren than half of modern culture depends on whatone shouldn't read.Women, as someone says, love wi..
Henry James 633g1n
Picture and Text is a collection of essays by Henry James on the art of illustration, published in 1893. The essays are brief profiles of the principal illustrators for Harper and Brothers books and magazines, and has been ed for extensive and perceptive essays on John Singer Sargent and Honoré Daumier. Included with the essays on black-and..
Henry James 633g1n
This early work by Henry James was originally published in 1918 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Henry James was born in New York City in 1843. One of thirteen children, James had an unorthodox early education, switching between schools, private tutors and private reading.. James published his first story, 'A ..
Joseph Conrad 4a142p
The twenty-six essays collected in Notes on Life and Letters (first published 1921) offer a kaleidoscopic view of Joseph Conrad's literary views and interest in the events of his day, including the Titanic disaster and First World War. The introduction traces the pre-publication history of the essays, traces the book's reception, and offers new per..
Lewis Carroll 34i5e
Feeding the Mind is a note on his books written by Lewis Carroll himself. The history of this little sparkle from the pen of Lewis Carroll may soon be told. It was in October of the year 1884 that he came on a visit to a certain vicarage in Derbyshire, where he had promised, on the score of friendship, to do what was for him a most unusual favour—t..
Bertrand Russell t4sd
Free Thought and Official Propaganda is a speech delivered in 1922 by Bertrand Russell on the importance of unrestricted freedom of expression in society, and the problem of the state and political class interfering in this through control of education, fines, economic leverage, and distortion of evidence...